In the physics of general relativity, the equivalence principle is any of several related concepts dealing with the equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass, and to Albert Einstein's observation that the gravitational "force" as experienced locally while standing on a massive body (such as the Earth) is actually the same as the pseudo-force experienced by an observer in a non-inertial (accelerated) frame of reference.
F = m a
F = G M m/r2
a = G M/r2
Av detta följer att alla föremål faller med samma acceleration i ett gravitationsfält (bortsett från luftmotståndet).
Länk 2 innehåller Galileis teoretiska argumentation för ekvivalensprincipen. Se A Cultural History of Gravity and the Equivalence Principle för diskussion om tidigare funderingar (den Bysantinske filosofen Iohannes Philiponus).
Dear Colleagues,
As usual, I am sending you this CERN press release before we issue it
to the media. Unusually this time, however, I feel that it needs a few
words of introduction. The OPERA collaboration has measured the time
of flight of neutrinos sent from CERN to Gran Sasso, along with the
distance they cover. These measurements appear to show that the
neutrinos are travelling faster than light. When a collaboration makes
a surprising observation such as this and is unable to account for it,
the ethics of Science demand that the results be made available to a
wider community, to seek scrutiny and to encourage independent
experiments. That's why when the spokesperson of the OPERA
collaboration asked me whether they could hold a seminar here, I said yes. Given the potential impact of such a measurement, I felt it important for CERN formally to make its position clear. That's the reason for the cautiously worded statement we're sending to the media today.
Best regards,
Rolf Heuer
Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is a form of radiant energy released by certain electromagnetic processes. Visible light is one type of electromagnetic radiation, other familiar forms are invisible electromagnetic radiations such as X-rays and radio waves.
Classically, EMR consists of electromagnetic waves, which are synchronized oscillations of electric and magnetic fields that propagate at the speed of light. The oscillations of the two fields are perpendicular to each other and perpendicular to the direction of energy and wave propagation, forming a transverse wave. Electromagnetic waves can be characterized by either the frequency or wavelength of their oscillations to form the electromagnetic spectrum. (Electromagnetic_radiation )
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